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meteorite comparison table

Subject	has sediment mechanism	has weather resistance	has probability of occurence	has degree of shock metamorphism	has age	has shape	has shock stage	has distinguishing feature	has fragmentation probability	has fall location	has fall date	has metamorphism mechanism	has solidification mechanism	has name	has part	has weather	has fall description	has identification date	has relative abundance	has oxidation state	has value	has total mass of find	has peak temperature	has parent body	has composition	is a kind of	has find date	has number of find	has origin	has ablative mass loss	has solidification timescale	has definition
achondrite		low						no chondrules	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods			based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred					7.1 % of meteorite falls			1606 kg			often minerals not found on Earth	stony meteorite		70	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite		a meteorite produced by secondary processes on large asteroids that have differentiated
Antarctic meteorite		which depends on its composition							during meteor phase which depends on composition	indicated by letters in the beginning of name	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods			3 or 4 letter contracted from find location then last two digits of year then id number								485755 kg			often minerals not found on Earth	meteorite	recovery year is first 2 numbers in name	1691	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	directly proportional to initial velocity
differentiated meteorite		which depends on its composition							during meteor phase which depends on composition	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods			based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred								485755 kg			silicates (with very few exceptions)	igneous rock		1691	planet or asteroid much larger than 100 km in diameter	directly proportional to initial velocity
highly reduced meteorite		which depends on its composition							during meteor phase which depends on composition	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods			based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred						highly reduced with very little FeO		485755 kg			often minerals not found on Earth	meteorite		1691	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	directly proportional to initial velocity
meteorite fall		which depends on its composition							during meteor phase which depends on composition	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	recorded by eyewitness or instruments			based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred		negligible due to quick recovery of meteorite before corrosion begins	what witnesses saw or what was recorded by instruments				higher because the fall was witnessed	485755 kg			often minerals not found on Earth	meteorite		1691	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	directly proportional to initial velocity		a meteorite whose fall was witnessed by human or electronic means
meteorite find		which depends on its composition							during meteor phase which depends on composition	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods			based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred		can be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agents					lower because the fall was not witnessed	485755 kg			often minerals not found on Earth	meteorite	when the meteorite was found	1691	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	directly proportional to initial velocity		a meteorite whose fall was not witnessed
oriented meteorite		which depends on its composition	higher for non-spherical, flattened or angular meteoroids			conical from preferential ablation during atmospheric passage			during meteor phase which depends on composition	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods			based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred								485755 kg			often minerals not found on Earth	meteorite		1691	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	directly proportional to initial velocity		conical meteorite shape resulting from preferential ablation during atmospheric passage
Sahara meteorite		which depends on its composition							during meteor phase which depends on composition	Sahara desert	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods			based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred		can be severe due to long exposure time to environmental corrosion agents					lower because the fall was not witnessed	485755 kg			often minerals not found on Earth	meteorite find	when the meteorite was found	1691	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	directly proportional to initial velocity
shocked meteorite		which depends on its composition		from unshocked to whole rock melted			from unshocked S1 to shock melted		during meteor phase which depends on composition	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods	shock metamorphism		based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred								485755 kg			often minerals not found on Earth	metamorphic rock		1691	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	directly proportional to initial velocity
stony meteorite		low							high because it is more friable than iron meteorite	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods			based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred								485755 kg			often minerals not found on Earth	meteorite		1691	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	high because it is more friable than iron meteorite
undifferentiated meteorite	agglomeration of particles, many of which record individual, diverse histories	which depends on its composition			oldest and most primitive rock in solar system				during meteor phase which depends on composition	strewn fields, elongated footprints which depends on impact angle, airbursts, and impact velocity	recorded by eyewitness or inferred from dating methods			based on the locale, region, or nearby town in which the fall occurred	interstellar grains as minor inclusions							485755 kg	less than 950 degree Celsius during its entire history since solidification	asteroid smaller than 100 km in diameter	often minerals not found on Earth	conglomerate		1691	meteoroid from interplanetary space or fragment dislodged from another planet, moon or planetesimal	directly proportional to initial velocity		a primitive meteorite which has not been differentiated within a large asteroid

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